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Really problematic, worth seeing film.
( I'm cutting for friends-list convenience, as I'm going to presume none of you have spoiler issues with The Illiad )
The film is worth seeing, and has many fine moments both visually and emotionally. But ultimately, it's an action movie, which assumes audience knowledge (or lack there of) in all the wrong places, and I happen to think that none of that is what an epic should be.
If the Illiad were a story I were more personally invested in, I would have been throwing shoes at the screen.
And I hardly got any good trailers, although Constantine looks not nearly as bad as it could be and seeing the Manchurian trailer on the big screen -- yeah, punching weird buttons I wish I didn't have.
( I'm cutting for friends-list convenience, as I'm going to presume none of you have spoiler issues with The Illiad )
The film is worth seeing, and has many fine moments both visually and emotionally. But ultimately, it's an action movie, which assumes audience knowledge (or lack there of) in all the wrong places, and I happen to think that none of that is what an epic should be.
If the Illiad were a story I were more personally invested in, I would have been throwing shoes at the screen.
And I hardly got any good trailers, although Constantine looks not nearly as bad as it could be and seeing the Manchurian trailer on the big screen -- yeah, punching weird buttons I wish I didn't have.
